eBay Buying Tip: My eBay Page

My eBay page
Looking for a way to keep track of all your eBay activity? The My eBay page is a great way to keep track of items you're bidding, buying, watching, and have won in one convenient location.

Each eBay member has his or her own personal My eBay section. Just click on the My eBay link at the top of any eBay page. Enter your User ID and password to enter your private My eBay page.

My eBay is divided into several sections to help keep you organized.

A. Summary
From this page, buying and selling reminders help you stay on top of all your current bidding, buying and selling activities along with the most recent eBay announcements to keep you informed.

B. All Buying
This section displays all the items you are currently bidding on, have won, and are currently watching. Items in green mean that you are currently the highest bidder while items in red mean that someone else has outbid you. The Watching section is a great way to keep a close eye on items of interest so you don't miss out on any last minute bidding!


C. All Selling
My eBay can also be used to track all your selling activity on eBay. Items listed in green mean there is a winning bidder, while items listed in red mean there currently is no winning bidder. From this page you can send an invoice to your buyer, send a payment reminder, and leave feedback.

D. All Favorites
This is a great feature that lets you bookmark your favorite categories, sellers, and searches so you can access them quickly and easily. To save a search, click on the 'Add to Favorites' link on the search results page. You can even choose to have eBay email you whenever there are new items matching your search.

E. My Account
From this section, update your personal information such as: User ID/Password and shipping address. Customize your eBay experience from the Preferences page, and leave feedback for sellers.

Geldof angry; eBay scraps Live8 ticket sales

LONDON (AFP) - The Internet auction site eBay bowed to pressure and stopped selling tickets for the London Live8 concert to increase awareness of African poverty due to be held on July 2.

More than two million mobile phone text messages were sent in a lottery to win the 150,000 free tickets to the show, starring Paul McCartney, Elton John and REM, among others.

But no sooner had the first tickets been allocated than some began appearing Tuesday for sale on eBay.

Irish pop star-turned aid activist Bob Geldof, who is organising the event, described the sales as "sick" and threatened to launch a court case to force eBay to end them.

Geldof told Tuesday's Daily Mirror newspaper that he was furious at eBay for allowing the sales, labelling the firm "an electronic pimp".

eBay to Buy Shopping.com for $620 million

San Francisco (InfoWorld) - eBay continued its acquisition spree by agreeing to buy comparison shopping site Shopping.com for about $620 million in cash. The move should benefit eBay's sellers by giving them access to a new sales channel and a new set of buyers, while Shopping.com will be improved by the addition of eBay's listings on its site. eBay had annual revenue of $3.3 billion in 2004, and net income of $778.2 million. In the same year Shopping.com made $99 million in revenue and net income of $12.2 million. But Shopping.com has been adding customers at a faster clip, according to research company comScore Media Metrix. It attracted 22.6 million unique visitors in April, up 15 percent from the same month a year earlier, compared with 63.8 million for eBay, an increase of 6 percent over the same period. In December eBay agreed to buy property listings site Rent.com for $415 million, and a month before that it bought Holland's top classifieds site, Marktplaats.nl, for $290 million. Earlier last year it acquired a 25-percent stake in Craigslist of San Francisco, beefing up its classifieds business.

eBay Selling Tip # 1: Relisting Your Item

Normally, Insertion Fees are non-refundable. However, if your listing ends without a winning buyer or results in an Unpaid Item (UPI), you may qualify for a credit by relisting the item. If the item sells the second time, eBay will refund the Insertion Fee for the relisting.

To relist an item, sign in to eBay, go to the item page for the ended listing, and click on "relist your item". You can also go to other places, such as the Unsold Items view of My eBay, and click on the "Relist" link for the item. (Source: eBay Help)

Stolen PaceMaker sold on eBay

This surely should push eBay to be more strict with medical devices.

It was reported by Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune that Medtronic Inc., based in Minneapolis, recently discovered that one of its pacemakers was stolen from a California hospital, sold on eBay and then implanted in an Arizona man.

This surfaced when when police in Sacramento, Calif., arrested a 21-year-old woman early March on an embezzlement charge. Amber Bowen, a nurse's aide at Sutter Memorial Hospital in Sacramento, also ran an Internet medical supply business on the side called Body Fantasy Inc., according to Sacramento police.

Bowen allegedly stole two Medtronic pacemakers from the hospital in October 2004 and then posted them for sale on eBay. Typically, a pacemaker costs about $6,000, but Bowen sold them for $255 each, police said.

The report said the stolen pacemakers were bought by Greg Etts, a purchasing manager for a large cardiac practice based in the Phoenix area called Advanced Cardiac Specialists, according to a report issued by the Arizona Medical Board. Etts reportedly had admitted to board officials that he knew the pacemakers were stolen when he bought them and that he often purchased devices on eBay.

Popemobile Seller Sues eBay: Price not enough

Benjamin Halbe, the jobless German who sold the the VW Golf once owned by Pope Benedict XVI (now known as the PopeMobile) for £130,000 GoldenPalace.com is suing eBay because he says it's not enough.

Halbe, 21, from Olpe near Cologne, bought the car from a private dealer for over £6,000 just six months before Pope Benedict took the helm in Vatican.

Halbe asked lawyers in the Munich legal firm Ulsenheimer and Friedrich to investigate claims that dozens of people had been unable to log on to eBay to register a bid in the closing stages of the sale.

They would be investigating the last few hours where there were "proven bidders who wanted to offer more but whose bids for higher amounts for unknown reasons were not registered on the eBay site".

Lawyer Juergen Langer from the firm has called on eBay to explain the problems. eBay in Germany admitted the car had been the most popular item ever to have been sold on its pages.

North Dakota boy auctioned by friend on eBay; bid reached $3,000

In North Dakota, a prank by two teenagers caught the attention of the principal at North Dakota's Hazen High.

Of of them put the other on sale on eBay, but eBay removed the auction when the bidding reached $3,300. Since sale of body parts on eBay is illegal, and so therefore is the sale of a whole live body.

The boys lost their computer privileges at school (yes, they used the school computers) but Dana Mattheis, the mother of the boy being "sold" on e-Bay, said she thinks the prank was funny. Mattheis said there was nothing inappropriate in the eBay ad.But that's not how Principal Ed Boger saw it.

Golden Palace buys Pope mobile Volkswagen

The online casino GoldenPalace.com known for buying unusual items at outrageous prices has won an eBay auction for Pope Benedict XVI's previously owned 1999 Volkswagen Golf, bidding Euro 188,938.88 (approx. $244,590.83 USD).

Pope Benedict XVI (then Cardinal Josef Ratzinger) sold the six-year-old VW Golf to a private individual a few months he become pope. The new owner subsequently posted the car on eBay, and the auction reportedly shattered eBay records by receiving over 8.5 million visitors to its auction page.

GoldenPalace CEO Richard Row: "We have amassed a collection of what many consider to be holy artifacts. It seems only natural to get a blessed vehicle to carry these items. We are planning to showcase our acquisitions by bringing them on tour and allowing people to enjoy the experience of sitting in the divine car, in an effort to raise as much money for charity as possible."

Just recently Golden Palace shelled out $5,001 to buy Britney Spears' alleged home pregnancy test. But not on eBay. It was being peddled by Ottawa radio station Hot 89.9, which claims the test was retrieved from the trash inside Spears' Los Angeles hotel room months ago.